I am presently teaching my young Literature students from the novel we are all reading, CS Lewis' The Last Battle. So many good contrasts are there between the World and the Kingdom — it is so very good.

Putting aside for now the disclaimer about why I do believe Lewis' writings are excellent evangelical tools in spite of what many say about the pagan nature of his content, two key parts stand out in my fourth tour of the story.

The first is one that I'd mentioned before in a home page piece, but I'd like to bring up again because it relates to a question I'd just heard on an apologetics radio show: "Why are there so many Christian denominations?" While I think the host of the show, fine apologist Greg Koukl, gave a decent response about some things related to the concern, he entirely missed the mark on this one.

The real answer is simply because the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy must invent so many of them. Every religion and sect and cult and subdivision that is not ungrafted from the World System is under the legitimate authority and management of that System. As Cain's very legacy, Rome has devised, arranged, and established all of them, throughout all of history, and certainly will prop up more if necessary. The sworn laborers' ongoing work is then to ensure its devout parishioners sign up with the System so it may govern their affairs.

The Last Battle incident? The protagonist party encounters a group of dwarves they must persuade regarding the true identity of the Christ character, the lion Aslan. They are stunned to discover the dwarves don't want to hear it. They want nothing to do with their sales pitch because they've already been sold so many worthless versions of this "Aslan."

Of course.

Why should anyone listen to theirs?

One of the greatest inventions of Rome's crack team of World Operatives, today's version better known as the Jesuit Order, is the idea that Jesus Christ is just one of many Jesuses, or any object one may worship, and it is merely up to the individual to decide which item in the religious buffet they wish to consume.

The apostle Paul faced this very thing two millennia ago! The 17th chapter of Acts tells us about the time he went into Athens and its celebrated Areopagus showcasing the many ornately statuesque idols, and he encounters every truly smart person trying most valiantly to be tolerant and inclusive and certain that every god is properly represented for maximum exhibition of the most robust virtue-signaling.

It is the same today.

Exactly the same.

It is as if there had been infused into the mainstream a hyperhenotheism. If you remember the social condition henotheism is the respect for every tribe's own corporately favored gods. Each group or even entire nation has their own, formed and shaped and worshipped for each one's own particular needs.

A hyperhenotheism is that it now isn't each tribe's god, but each individual's god. Each individual human being has now been privileged to make up his or her own god as they please.

Such freedom! Such liberation! Such release from the bondage of the oppressive religious class!

And most of all such wicked folly.

A god of one's own making is death, plain and simple. It is idolatry, it is stupidity, and it is enslavement with a ferocious smile. Here's what makes this truth more pressing today.

"A.I."

At this point in my home page piece here I was just planning to repost a blog post I made in March of last year. I'm not, but I will direct you to it — it is here. It was about how powerful a tool the "A.I." is in the hands of brilliantly proficient World Ops and just how horrifying it is to behold the brutal malevolence of those employing it in the deepest of deep states. It is like the film Bird Box featuring people having to maneuver through life with blindfolds else you'd be compelled to gaze upon the soaring suicide-inducing demons and then frighteningly off yourself.

Hey, sounds like precisely what the World Ops are angling for anyway among the general populace.

What "A.I." (in quotes for reasons explained in this home page piece) allows those Ops to do is get people to be further captivated by the God of their own making — after all a superduper fast processing thingamajig will make fully authoritative even splendidly deified the information I need to further elevate my own god and religion and behavior and rationalization for doing whatever it is I want.

It is the present-day mother lode for drawing the most catatonic allegiance to Rome. So many possibilities, so much CGI generated performance art appeal, so many imaginative ways to splinter society into each person's pathologically solipsistic realms that the Jesuits will have finally achieved what they've always wanted.

A fully ecumenically unified World.

Think about it. It is counterintuitive, but vast ecumenical success emerges from a world filled with all the wildly insane personal god tribes — hyperhenotheism with a vicious insistence on respecting each individual's personal belief system can only result in everyone's desire to have the Ecclesiocracy manage the superficial fragmentation. Really it is just one monolithic intertwined power with that one Romanist Agent securing the whole thing.

Just listen to the loud bleating about what is going on with DOGE and Elon Musk trying to even barely scale back the massive incestuous relationship between the supposedly constitutional republic government and all the agencies and NGOs and essentially racketeering organizations that all have lips chafed and raw from being wrapped around the federal teat so much.

Deafening!

I'd considered getting deep into that whole mess, but then I'd only be trolleeing at that point. The main point is in that profoundly distinctive contrast.

Dare to go down deep, deeper, deepest into the bowels of the Ecclesiocracy?

Do you recall that verse in the 17th chapter of Jeremiah? Verse nine to be precise, the one evangelicals like to spout every time they want to convince someone of their sin? "The heart is deceitful above all things..."? You know, that one? Have you actually read the rest of that chapter? You should, because it is a great treatise on the differences between the World and the Kingdom, most specifically what you are doing and what happens to you when you put your faith in one or the other.

And really, that's it. There is no henotheism or hyperhenotheism, just piddly little fractured personal limited hangouts. Every thing that isn't God is an idol. It is either/or — the object of one's worship is one of the World's thousands or The One That Is The Kingdom. It is Hell, or it is Heaven. There are no others, and everyone belongs to one. You can scream until you are purple that you have your own god and your own tribe and your own crew and your own cause and your own crusade and your own critically indispensible commercial enterprise and all the rest of it — but there are only two.

Yes, the truth is, you can't help but be binary. Oh my. Thing is if you object and claim to be non-binary then you are recognizing the binary. You are "non" and I am "bi" (so to speak!) There, binary. Sorry!

I have to share this social media post from Jeffrey Tucker, a quite observant pundit I've referenced several times before in my web work. He always shares insightful things but never comes to finally grasp what is really going on and why. He says he goes deep into the rabbit hole, but like most of these people he doesn't go far enough. He always admits how mystified he is!

But again! I too don't want to go that far either, for what is down there is too gruesome to look upon. Here is one of his many references to what was exposed in the whole Covid lockdown insanity.

He does understand who these people really are. He does even comprehend that most everybody is fine with it. They've always been that way, they always will be that way, indeed God has sent the reviled potentates out of His presence to do precisely what Mr. Tucker screeches about but, alas, can do nothing about.

Um, except understand.

And then, ahem, turn to Christ.

And then, wow, be blessed to dwell comfortably and peacefully in the Kingdom knowing that God both embraces Him based on His self-sacrificial love, and then based on His perfect righteous justice will one day completely do away with the wickedness all around that so heinously afflicts us.

This leads to the closing item here, that second part of The Last Battle I'd brought up earlier.

It is when Tirian and his cohorts are making their way to Stable Hill where the dramatic resolution of all the deceit and dissipation is about to occur. Jill and Eustace — intelligent and courageous children who have been sent to Narnia from their regular existence in the world we have here — they have a conversation that reflects the attitude every genuine follower of Christ should have.

They simply wonder, what if we die? They are presently in Narnia, but they ponder, if they die in battle in Narnia, what does that mean about their lives in their world? They make puzzled note of something about a serious train accident that may have happened just before being swept into Narnia, something that portends a critical part of the climax to the Chronicles series, but that is just it...

Death doesn't matter to the genuine follower of Christ because it is only a richly rapturous new beginning of something far better than anything any of us have had here in this temporal existence. This of course is one of the reasons Lewis is so awesome, he makes these Kingdom truths come alive.

In the tenth chapter of Mark, after addressing our desires to tightly grip things that are so very good but still not Kingdom-oriented, Jesus emphatically declares your focus must be fully on Him after which "...[You will] receive a hundred times as much in this present age... and in the age to come eternal life."

The World is perfectly fine for people who need it, demand it, painfully clamor for it. In His mercy God sent that thing out to do its ruthless work, but evildoing people need an evildoing body to constrain them so... so...

They will otherwise turn to Christ and Kingdom instead.

There are only those two:

The World and its very ugly Hell. And —

The Kingdom and The One Who Loves With His Life.

"Choose this day whom you will serve. As for me and my household..."

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